Gomez v. Dime Savings Bank

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburg appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Greenstein, J.), dated December 2, 1997, which denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the complaint is dismissed.

The plaintiff slipped and fell on wet leaves on a public sidewalk in front of one of the defendant’s branch offices. In the absence of an ordinance or statute imposing liability, an abutting landowner may only be…